Bacterial development in the fast lane

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4373-4376

  Kroos, Lee ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN A; MOLECULAR MARKER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CELL AGGREGATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FRUITING BODY; HEREDITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NOTE; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 46049111427     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00580-08     Document Type: Note

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